EXPERIENCE
UCLA Institute for Transportation Studies, Graduate Student Researcher
January 2023 - September 2023
Caltrans-funded research on freeway inequities in marginalized communities in California, such as West Fresno and Colton, using archival research, scholarly literature, on-site visits, oral histories, interviews, and data analysis.
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, Graduate Student Researcher
June 2020 - June 2022
Conducting and coding interviews, analyzing results, and collaborating on research output for the NSF-funded Augmenting Social Media Content Moderation project.
Wikimedia Foundation, Targets of Harassment Researcher
March 2021 - June 2021
Ethnographic interviews, survey administration, collection of data, synthesis of data and final analyses as needed. Co-authoring and presenting reports on the Targets of Harassment research to key stakeholder audiences
William Andrews Clark Library, Technical Services
November 2018 - December 2022
Assisting the technical services team with various tasks such as reflagging, shelf reads, cataloging, archival appraisal, and processing.
The Mazer Lesbian Archives, Processing
June 2020 - July 2020
Contract position assisting with a subject files collection survey of archival materials.
bepress, Senior Consultant (Web Design), Operations Associate (Design and Documentation)
March 2015 - October 2018
Consulting, troubleshooting, tech support, metadata best practices, and special collections advice via phone and email for administrators of institutional repositories at academic libraries and open-access scholarly publications. Serving as primary backup to in-house web designer, applying copyediting and scholarly communications skills to help create and maintain internal and client-facing resources and documentation.
University of California Berkeley, Library Technician
May 2010 - December 2010
Processing incoming newspapers, microfilm, microfiche and entering them into Millennium ILS; assisting with serials department.
University of California Berkeley, Classics Department, Research Assistant
January 2010 - May 2010
Transcribing 16th century Latin edition of Euripides’ plays using ABBYY Finereader Express.
SF Media Archive/OddBall Film and Video, Intern
May 2008 - August 2008
Converting 16mm film to digital format using Final Cut Pro, cataloging and entering new films into database using FileMaker Pro.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Information Studies
Teaching Assistant
IS10: Information and Power, 2022
IS30: Internet and Society, 2022
Special Reader
IS212: Values and Communities in Information Professions, 2021, 2023
IS431: Archives, Records, and Memory, 2022
IS260: Description and Access, 2023
PUBLICATIONS
"Precarious Labor, Innovation and LIS" January 2020
Published as part of Michelle Caswell’s Critical Theory and LIS graduate seminar.
PRESENTATIONS & EXHIBITS
Conference Presentations
"Libraries Minus Librarians: Automation and the Staffless Model." poster presentation. (25 June 2023) ALA Annual 2023
"Precarity, Emotional Labor, and Workforce Sustainability in Library and Information Studies" (7 March 2020) Sustaining Visions: The Future of Special Collections Libraries
Workshops
"Building Anticarceral Libraries: A Teach-in for Library Workers and Patrons" (5 June 2023) co-facilitated with Jeremy Abbott
"Toward Narrating A People's History of U.S. Public Libraries" (4 March 2023) co-facilitated with Mariame Kaba
"Criminalization 101 for Information Workers" (26 October 2023) Part of Project NIA’s Building Your Abolitionist Toolkit series. Co-facilitated with Mariame Kaba and Bean Yogi
Exhibits and Curation
Curated “The Bird Man and the American Woodsman: Scientific and Social Debate in Victorian Ornithological Illustrations” exhibit at UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, March-April 2019
SKILLS
HTML and CSS
ArchivesSpace
Dedoose
ABBYY Finereader
Microsoft Access
SQLite
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Exhibit curation
Proficient in written French and Spanish
Working knowledge of written Latin
ASSOCIATIONS
Co-President, SAA at UCLA 2019-20
Co-Chair, Society of California Archivists UCLA student chapter 2019-20
Instructional Services Committee, PhD representative, UCLA IS Dept. 2020-21
Faculty Executive Committee, PhD representative, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies 2021-22
Volunteer, Prison Library Support Network’s Reference Project 2021-present
Information Access for Incarcerated People working group, Abolitionist Library Association 2020-present
Steering committee, For the People: A Leftist Library Project, 2023-present